The one and only album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, piano, electric piano, saxophones and flute.
This band released this album and an EP before they gave up and disbanded. The EP was added onto a CD version of this album (1999) as bonus tracks. This is not the version of this album I am reviewing, though.
I take it that the cover art is taken from the Tacoma Bridge and it's collapse. That bridge was in the Pacific Ocean and not in the Atlantic Ocean...... Ouch !
This three quarters of an hour long album is a fusion album. It is more leaning towards jazz than rock. There is a lot of saxophone solos and some good work on the electric piano.
The music is slow and not as technically complex as most other jazz and fusion albums from that time. The musicianship is well below for example the likes of Mahavishnu Orchestra and Soft Machine.
The band still thought it was a good idea to cover two Beatles evergreens, Something and Dear Prudence. There is also a cover of Macarthur Park here, a song made pretty famous by both Waylon Jennings and Donna Summers. Those three songs are pretty unremarkable and uninteresting on this album.
The jazz parts here are decent enough and the sound is good. This is barely a decent album who proves that not all jazz and fusion from Great Britain was great or even good. There is a distinct lack of quality on this album. Nevertheless, this is a decent album and perhaps worth checking out if jazz and fusion is your thing.
2 points
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